SEAN DYCHE’S gravelly voice has become one of the most distinctive rituals in Match of the Day interviews in recent years.
The witty Burnley boss’ gruff tones have rattled around the ears of the club’s underdog players as they have climbed into the dizzy heights of the Premier League’s top six.
But it has emerged the 46-year-old’s bizarre snack of WORMS is the reason that he has such a distinctive way of speaking.
Dyche’s former Bristol City team-mate Soren Andersen has revealed the bushtucker-like ritual from their time together at Ashton Gate in the late 90’s.
He said: “He had exactly the same voice.
“Maybe the voice comes from eating rainworms (Danish name for earthworms), because every time we trained he used to eat worms.”
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Dyche would turn up to training and then gross out his team-mates by gobbling the bizarre delicacy if they crawled out of the grass on the training pitch.
Andersen added on the Danish podcast Fodboldministeriet: “Yes, he did. It was horrible, I’ve never experienced anything like it.
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“It was like ‘whoops, there’s a worm; and then he ate it.
“It was a bit disgusting and very strange. He was a good player, and I enjoyed being around him, but the thing with the worms was very strange.
“There was always these worms around. And everybody always commented on it as being disgusting and complained a bit.
“So I think maybe it was a kind of provocation, and to show us that it wasn’t something we should focus on or care about, he just ate one or two.”
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